This four-bedroom house in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, near Soho Farmhouse, is on sale for £2.75 million with Knight Frank

Just as urban dwellers want amenities such as spas, gyms and restaurants on their doorstep, so do country-house buyers, which is why they are willing to pay a premium — up to a third more — to live close to a country club.

Country-house hotels and members’ clubs — such as Babington House in Somerset, Soho Farmhouse in Oxfordshire, the Pig Hotels in Hampshire and Dorset, Retreat East in Suffolk, and Gleneagles in Perth and Kinross — have extensive amenities that are drawing in buyers and pushing up property prices. Here we take a tour of the clubs that are attracting buyers’ attention.

In Wellow, Bath, this four-bedroom house is on sale for £1.75 million through Savills. The popular Babington House members’ club is seven miles away

Luke Brady, the head of Savills in Bath, says: “Babington House is a massive pull to country-house buyers. Combined with the Somerset…